Recording MP3s from old tapes...

[IgoByte]

I've been meaning to do this for a long time, but never got around to it. Now, looking at my small stereo, I connected it's MD line out to my sound card's lilne in jack. I can hear all the music coming from the stereo through my PCs speakers, regardless of whether it's from a CD, tape or radio, but I can't record anything using MMJB's line-in recording option. Would anyone happen to know how to record MP3s from the tape deck on my stereo, or perhaps the radio? This must be possible, simply because the sound is definitely going through the puter's soundcard, but I may need different software.
In order to use MMJB's line-in feature though, would need an actual tape dect line-out on my stereo?

Does anyone have any insight on this?

 

[Pauli]

It should be no problem recording from the line-in on your soundcard. Just get a program like Goldwave and you should be all set.

 

[IgoByte]

Thank you.

Anyone else with suggestions for programs?

 

[Workin']

You need to make sure the line-in is selected for recording. Typically the mic input is selected by default.

 

[IgoByte]

Originally posted by: Workin'
You need to make sure the line-in is selected for recording. Typically the mic input is selected by default.

I know that, I did it, and it ain't workin'.

Are there any other apps I can use to record the music?

 

[WinkOsmosis]

There are plugins for Winamp.

 

[Workin']

Originally posted by: IgoByte

Originally posted by: Workin'
You need to make sure the line-in is selected for recording. Typically the mic input is selected by default.

I know that, I did it, and it ain't workin'.

Are there any other apps I can use to record the music?

GoldWave is pretty decent. Or Cool Edit 2000. Both are shareware and both have free trial versions.

 

[Slogun]

Well, sound cards (such as soundblaster) usually come with recording software.

However, as was stated, you SHOULD be able to record using MMJB.
I did so a year or so ago when I wanted some MP3s of some recordings I have on LP which were not available on any of the P2P networks at the time.

If you are hearing the music through your PC speakers, you certainly should be able to record it.

Double-check your settings. You might want to toggle between your LINE IN and MIC In record source settings in MMJB.

MMJB/Options/Settings/recorder/Recording Source/(select line-in vs mic)

Not sure if this will actually help in this case, but another place to check your settings might be: control Panel/Sounds/Audio/sound recording

 

[Jeff7]

Sorry but, what is MMJB?
You should be able to test the recording just with Windows Sound Recorder (with the Line in still selected as the recording source in Volume Control of course.)

Now, looking at my small stereo, I connected it's MD line out to my sound card's lilne in jack.

Its MD line? I'm not up on all these audio acronyms, sorry.

 

[Slogun]

MMJB = Music Match Juke box, one of the popular freeware media players.

"MD line?" we referred to mic and Line-in, common sound card or motherboard connections for inputting signals.

 

[desktopsilver]

Man i was just thinking this today,there is a lot of different programs out there to record and play music with all doing it differently,but none are the real simple basic point and click once or twice type ,ive delt with one of the first versions of cd creator,and now have nero 5.56 and im trying to figure them out its a little diffcult at frst and ive spent about 1/2 hour so far.realy lots of room to expand in this area geting radio stations through cable ,tv,telephone all hrough one line ,maybee a controll jack you could have going from your tv to your computer so you could set up vcr times ,moniter your tv's hardware/voltage,eq your tv,s out put ,have your stereo speakers work as an alarm clock,adjust tv collor ,accesses any of the menus of any of your componnts through your computer ,now we'd be talkin.

 

[Pink0]

how about windows sound recorder? The problem is that you don't have windows set up to use the line in for recording. Once you go into soundproperties, what you are seeing has NO bearing on recording. You have to go to advanced and change it from playback to recording and then select your 1 input device. Then you can click the red dot in sound recorder or whatever program and get your song. Tuff, eh?

 

[mithrandir2001]

MMJB uses the Xing MP3 encoder, which is your guarantee for pisspoor sound. Xing doesn't even employ short blocks for crying out loud.

 

[IgoByte]

Guys, I'm sorry for the acronyms, but they are quite common around here. Let me clear this up:

On my computer, I'm using MusicMatch Jukebox, because that's what I use for my iPod and have it installed anyway. I also know for a fact that it ought to be able to make recordings from external sources, be it a CD player or a cassette deck. This is done by selecting Line-In as the recording source and simply pressing the record button - simple enough. Of course, there has to be a proper cable going from the piece of audio equipment (ex: cassette deck) going into the proper jack on the back of the sound card.

Now, to other things:
I can record sound from any source on my stereo using the Mic-In, but it's awful sounding, because it's supposed to be a mic after all.
I cannot record anything through the Line-in, although all my settings in the jokebox seem to be correct (there's nothing much to set anyway). My theory is that since my stereo is a relatively small shelf system, and doesn't actually have tape deck in an out ports on the back of the receiver [but only MD, which I figure stands for Mini Disk or something to that tune], it just can't actually record anything from a tape. There are two solutions for the this in my mind: 1. get a mini disk deck/recorder, record all the tapes onto MDs and then record them to the computer or 2. get a stereo or a receiver that actually has tape deck in and out ports on the back.

However, since I'm not exactly an expert on audio, I was just curious if I was correct in assuming the above, specifically the part about my stereo.


I hope this didn't just confuse people even more. . .

 

[IgoByte]

Originally posted by: mithrandir2001
MMJB uses the Xing MP3 encoder, which is your guarantee for pisspoor sound. Xing doesn't even employ short blocks for crying out loud.

Well, that's interesting. What would you recommend for this stuff?

 

[Slogun]

Originally posted by: Pink0
how about windows sound recorder? The problem is that you don't have windows set up to use the line in for recording. Once you go into soundproperties, what you are seeing has NO bearing on recording. You have to go to advanced and change it from playback to recording and then select your 1 input device. Then you can click the red dot in sound recorder or whatever program and get your song. Tuff, eh?

I've not seen a way to make Windows Sound recorder record any clips longer than 60 secs.

Do you know a way to do that?

 

[Pink0]

Erm...good point. It's pretty useless. At any rate, once he sets the volume for RECORDING up correctly he'll be able to use any app to record. I guess he could record 1 minute clips with sound recorder and the splice them together with an expensive program like soundforge